What if I told you, that summer day on the road when I fell apart, and the panic took over I was more afraid of disappointing you, then the monsters pounding on my skull And the safest I felt that whole trip was in the empty parking lot of a Shopko While you hugged me …
Category Archives: poetry
Star-crossed
We run in circles too afraid to say what we feel, orbiting around each other in the solar system of life, when all we really want to do is to collide and set the world on fire.
Why We Write
We write our way through life because it’s the only way to make sense of the world around us. We write to show our feelings We write to say things we can’t possibly say aloud We write to find ourselves We write to find our people, the ones who can’t contain all the words that …
Perfection
I like to say that perfection doesn’t exist. Why then have I spent my whole life trying to achieve it.
Words are my oxygen
I put pieces of my soul on paper as though the act of writing is the same as breathing.
Peace
Peace is the moment when music and words converge and the quiet is no longer too loud.
Monsters inside me
I keep my thoughts safe between snug lines on blank pages hiding from the demons that prowl my brain, looking for innocent thoughts on which to prey. I keep my thoughts safe from the monsters inside me. They mess with my head and make my heart sad. they turn thoughts dark with no way to …
It’s okay pt2
I guess I was right my demons are too much and you finally got tired of saying “it’s okay”
Defiance
I have a defiance that lives in my bones and sometimes it decides to be shown.
Am I choosing the wrong thing
I always worry that I’m choosing the wrong thing I worry about it when I think about the effort it takes to get into the nursing program I worry about it when I think of how amazing it was to watch a real surgery I worry about it when I’m pouring my soul out on …
Word warrior 